PUT or POST: The REST of the Story

Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by aGHz on Thursday January 26, 2012 @01:10PM (#3515182)

Are you just HTTP-compliant (using the proper verbs and having Uniform Resource Locations point to actual resources) or are you truly 100% restful?

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Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by peregrine on Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:55PM (#3515686)

I suppose looking back I do have a concept of a session which is state. So no, but I organized my verbs and URL's to meet the specification and have the option to remove those sessions.

But I guess since I'm using a cookie-based sessions its less of an issue for state changes since the state stays mostly on the client.

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Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by mikaelgramont on Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:49PM (#3515924)

Agreed. Sessions and the limitations of forms are the biggest obstacles to 100% restful APIs used from web browsers.

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Re:PUT or POST: The REST of the Story by NanoWar on Friday January 27, 2012 @04:49AM (#3517737)

You can however use XHR form submission[1] in the background (which is a good practice (better site responsiveness) after all) to use HTTP methods other than GET and POST.

[1] e.g. http://jquery.malsup.com/form/#json

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